Thursday, December 22, 2016

Christmas and ghost stories may not immediately seem like two great tastes that taste great together, but they're actually a perfectly natural fit.

Although it's largely forgotten now, the practice of gathering around the fire to tell spooky stories was a popular Victorian Christmas tradition for years, as evidenced in this line from “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year": There’ll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago ...

The Dickens classic A Christmas Carol is probably the only remaining tale of a haunting that most of us associate with the holidays. But why let the ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come have all the fun? Here for your festively creepy pleasure are 5 Christmas ghost stories that may send chills down your spine -- or even, oddly enough, warm your heart.